PLANARIIDAE Stimpson, 1857
(a family of flatworms)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:
FamilyPLANARIIDAE (a family of flatworms)
InfraorderPaludicola (an infraorder of flatworms)
OrderTRICLADIDA
ClassRHABDITOPHORA (a class of flatworms)
PhylumPLATYHELMINTHES (flatworms, tapeworms, flukes)
SuperphylumPROTOSTOMIA (protostomes)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Ball, I.R. & Richardson, T.B. 1981 British Planarians Synopses of the British Fauna (New Series), 19, The Linnean Society of London
Reynoldson, T.B. & Young, J.O. 2000 A key to the Freshwater Triclads of Britain and Ireland with notes on their ecology Scientific Publications, No. 58, 3rd edition edition, 72pp, Freshwater Biological Association

PLANARIIDAE (a family of flatworms) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

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